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A colleague of mine was planning to modify the max_xfer_size attribute on a couple of
FC adapters in one of his AIX LPARs. As he was describing his plan to me, I
asked him how he intended to back out of the change should the LPAR fail to
boot after the modifications. “ But, what could
possibly go wrong?” he fired back. I advised him to use multibos to create a standby (backup)
instance of the AIX OS, just in case. He begrudgingly did so, just to keep me
happy. The next day he told me the following
tale. He had modified the FC... [More]